Peter Wilson showed no emotion as he was sentenced for abusing his daughter and three other children.

The 59-year-old welder denied the offences.

Daughter Natasha has bravely waived her right to anonymity in order to expose him

Speaking after a hearing in which she confronted her father in court, she said: “It was a really powerful feeling, to look my father in the eyes to tell him exactly what he did to me and to stand metres away from someone who tried to ruin me – and to show him how massively he’d failed.”

Natasha was applauded in court after reading out a powerful victim impact statement in front of her abuser.

Passing sentence, Judge Martin Hurst said: “It would take a hard heart indeed not to be moved by the victim impact statements describing the effect of the abuse they suffered all those years ago.

“An optimistic outcome is that they’ve all expressed these convictions have given them a considerable degree of closure and they can all move on with their lives.

“Your defence during the trial was they were making it up and lying and you hadn’t done anything.

“Your case was that it simply didn’t happen.

“Your four victims gave evidence over three or four days and described how you’d abused them at various periods spanning about 10 years (between 1991 and 2001).